Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-09-29
MISSING LINKS.

has been copyrighted ia twelve differ
eRt languages,
a gray crane. measuring six feet aae
inch and q half froa Tip 20 tip, vas
shot uear New Wilmington, Pa.
According tn Erred Douglass. Theodore
Tlltons hair has grown cream color.
But then Theodore always waS ec~
centric.
In Chicago a few DAYS ago u Mr..
Halter married Miss Rope and the
officiating Clergyman was the Rev. MIR.
Knott. The couple seem to be securely
tied.
]. Z. Sherman. of Cape Charles,
Va. has raised $4,000 worth Of kale
from fifty acres. or $3.50 per acre,
His net profit is Sl2,950, or S2a9 per
here.
There were 1858 photographers in
the United States in 1870 and 9,999 in
1880. There are now about il,oOC
persons engaged in the business in this
country.
J A 'cycler who has returned to his
home in Maplewood. y. j., after q trip
through Europe and Africa on his
tricyle saws he covered l2,00o miles. al
an expense of $500.
Mrs. O'Neill is said to have made
$4,000 in the laundry business at
Bar Harbor during the past four
Summers. She has a monopoly of the
trade. and even a monopoly in soiled
linen pays.
In the sherih7s office at Santa Cruz,
Cal, there are posted advertisements
offering rewards aggregating in the
neighborhood of $685. 10 to be paid for
the arrest and conviction of various
~murderers, robbers, burglars, and
absconders.
Mr.. Joseph Francis, the famous in
ventor of life-saving apparatus, who
has long been 4 resident of New Jersey,
has gone TO San Diego, Cal, to live
permanently. Mr.. Francis is now SO
years old. He is accompanied by ais
son, who is past 30.
Cincinnati is TO have a monument to
the m of President Harrison.
Artists are now at work on the designs
and 4 selection will soon be made. The
statue will be unvailed in the fall OF
1883, on the centennial anniversary OF
the city of Cincinnati.
H. Rider Haggard is a slender man,
with a fine head and a strong, we'll.
balanced face. He is o much oveI
so. He has plenty Of time before him
in which to do good work in fiction if be
will but avoid the production of hurried
and unfinished stories.
1t is reported that 4 rich American
is about to establish a paper factory
at San Luis Potesi. Mexico. with :
capital of at least $500, 900. The prin'
cipal material used will be .'lechuguilla'
a ibrous plant which grows abund
antly in that section.
A memorial to the late Charles
Reade has been unveiled in the cryp
of st. Paul's. 1t is a simple whit,
marble medallion portrait, bearing thu
inscription: ITO the memory o.
Charles Reed, d. c. L. Born stl
June, 1914; died 18th April, 1884
Author, dramatist, journalist" Thu
: medallion is close to the bust Of Georg,
Cruikshank.
A Nevada City man has found a stone
, which in shape, color, and general ex
= ternal appearance resembles a hug
oyster. The stone Is about Z inches
) long, 81 or 4 inches wide, and about :
!, inches thick. By the action of water
flowing over it ridges and groove.
have been formed on the rock, and il
such a as to give it the exac
appearance of an oyster of mammoth
) proportions.
Col. John II. Pierce, who lives a
: Pl~antsville, a little manufacturing
/. town in New England on the New
Haven & northampton road, is pre-
8 pairing to astonish the world by his in
ventive genius. He claims that he ha.
l proved the practicability of establish
ing passenger traffic between thi.
country and England by means o.
pneumatic tubes placed under the
ocean. He thinks that in the future
a man will be able to breakfast in New
York and take lunch in London.
Capt. John Alden of Duxbury, Mass.
"a years old, is a lineal descendant o
John Alden, who courted Priscilla
Mullins for Miles Standish, and wa
asked: ''Why don't you speak TO,
yourself, JOHN" at least so says a ped
igree furnished him by Marcus Alder
Tolman of Mauch Chunck, another o
the family. Capt. Alden says he ha
the chair in which John and Priscill;
sat when they only needed n chair
and points out the chair to prove it.
, Geisbert Poltgieser, of Chicago, i
. dead, at the age of seyenty-three. H
: was the oldest saloon-keeper in tn
City of Tyrian Purple. He went +
, Chicago in 1912, and opened a grocer
and bar. Besides his distinction a
the oldest saloon-keeper in Chicago h
]. | alzp nnio1-n1 4La ,n.,r4nt;rn 80 I1;,.
! the heaviest man in that city. In 1856
? he weighed 430 pounds. His weigi,
decreased as he grew older, but still
registered over 800 pounds at the tim
!. of his death. He leaves a fortune O
about $500, 900 to his wife aud children
Mr.. C. OBJ. Cowardin, the editor o
the Richmond Dispatch, has receive,
from the United States government 6
wages due him as mo. s." The Rich
mond State explains that some time az,
there was a vessel in distress off Cobb
island. The captain of the life-statioi
ordered out the life boat, but he needed
one man to complete his crew. Hi
call for volunteers was answered b.
Mr.. Cowardin who performed th,
duty of '.No. 5" and was known a
mo. s." As No. 5" knew what b,
was about, the ship was reached anc
saved.
The Royal Meteorological society il
! DESTROYS of obtaining photographs o
flashes of lightning, as it is believed
that a great deal of research on thi'
subject can only be pursued by mean:
of the camera. If a rapid dry plate
and an ordinary rapid doublet witt
full aperture be left uncovered al
night during q thunderstorm for {
short time flashes of light will, aftel
development, be found in some eases
to have impressed themselves upon the
plate. The only difficulty is the un
certainty whether any particular fash
viii happen to have been in the field
of view.
Charles Stuar. Cafverley, who wrote
Ely Leaves" was a frequent visitor
at the deans lodge when a student al
Cambridge. One evening when he
was there the children's bedtime came,
and they said Goodnight" One little
miss, about 5 years of age, kissed her
father and mother and was leaving the
room when her mother said: s'Why
my dear. are you not going to kiss
Mr. Calyerley2" Ma man"ea A.
Caiyerley doesn't want to kiss me.
How do you know he doesn't?" BE.
cause, mamma, whenever he meets us
walking, at the back of the college, he
always kisses nurse, but he never
1 Hissaa NAL